SANTA ANA, Calif. — On Monday, at 6:38PM, the Santa Ana Police Department received a call regarding criminal threats.
According to the caller, an unknown man had used unknown means to force entry into a storage room at Carl Thornton Park. When the caller contacted the male suspect, he threatened the calling party saying he had a “strap.”
When officers contacted the male, he was uncooperative and a minor use of force occurred. A search of the storage room, which the suspect had made into a living quarter revealed a plethora of stolen items. A loaded 45-caliber stolen handgun, 18 magazines of various calibers all loaded with ammunition and a weight vest with the weights removed and replaced with loaded magazines, which had been placed in the weight pockets for easy access.
One of the magazines was an extended magazine, which holds 31 rounds of 9 mm ammunition. The suspect, Ruben Perez, was arrested and transported to the Santa Ana Detention Facility where he was booked for various weapons charges.
